4 September 2023 Comox and environs

(1 hr) First day on Vancouver Island, staying with my aunt in Comox towards the north of the island. The weather was warm but dull. We visited the Kitty Coleman Garden, created by a local man for his wife. At this time of year there isn't a lot of colour in the garden, which is really a slightly tamed woodland which has lots of rhododendrons in it, with woodchip paths meandering through the trees and a few pools with a fountain. My favourite thing was the labyrinth, somewhat larger than the one at Beechbrae, marked out with stones and woodchip, and about a quarter of a km to walk to the centre, and the same out. With no-one else around, walking the labyrinth was a very peaceful experience. On the way back, I spotted some freaky, enormous webs strung in the branches of roadside trees. I had visions of gigantic spiders, but the more boring explanation is that they belong to colonies of a moth species called the fall webworm (not tent caterpillars, as my aunt thought), according to an article in the local newspaper, the Comox Valley Recorder, from which the photo is borrowed.